Next Release Planning

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Mon Aug 20 21:14:03 UTC 2012


On 08/20/2012 05:43 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On 08/20/2012 02:02 PM, Mike Burns wrote:
>> Now that oVirt 3.1 has shipped, we need to start the planning process
>> for the next release.  One of the major topics for this week's weekly
>> sync is to review the release criteria.
>>
>> The criteria we used for 3.1 is laid out on the wiki [1].  I will be
>> posting an equivalent version for the next release in the next couple
>> days, but it will mostly be copy/paste from this page.
>>
>> Please think about release criteria and whether or not we want to
>> add/remove/change things for this release.  This needs to be determined
>> now to make sure that the release process runs smoother down the line.
>
> Beyond the release criteria, there's the main goal of the release - what
> is the major problem oVirt users have that we can fix for the next
> release, for example?
>
> I find it useful to have one big user-visible goal to federate people
> around the release and give us a nice headline feature. Of course it's
> possible to have some smaller features we would like to add, and bugs we
> would like to fix. But the big goal provides both a neat way of
> prioritising work and a finish line to measure against.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>

my view - that would be great, but such goals should be suggested by 
someone also committing to delivering them per the planned schedule.





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